How to Make Glittery Christmas Tree Cones

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These trees are easy peasy, but messy messy! Such is life with glitter. They are made with a posterboard cone, with acrylic craft paint base, and topped with sequins and glitter!

I am no rocket scientist, so cutting and shaping cones was hard for my brain! So I google how to make cones, and saw a few techniques. I wanted the very skinny cones, so I had to modify things a bit.

I had the best success with using a quarter of a circle. Basically from the corner of the poster, hold a piece of string. On the other end of the string, wrap around a pencil and then draw an arc from edge to edge. Like a homemade compass.

Most of mine are kinda mangled, but they work! I just twisted them together as best I could, and then used clear tape to secure them. They’re fiiiiine. The sequins and glitter compensate for any imperfections.

If you are making a bunch of them and don’t want to bother with the poster board, you can also buy cones from Amazon or paper mache cones in bulk from Michaels. You won’t have quite the variation in sizes like you would with hand made cones, but whatever floats your boat!

This would be such a fun project for a girls night!

Tips for Using Glitter

To get a truly sparkly, chunky glitter effect on these trees, its best to use a few different sizes of glitter. I used small sequins, a chunky glitter and a fine glitter.

You need a nice thick layer of glue. I used Elmers School glue and then used a foam brush to spread it around evenly. While its still wet, sprinkle on the biggest sequins, then continue with the next largest size glitter, all the way down to the fine stuff.

Its like that time management object lesson, start with the big rocks in the jar, and then fill in with the rice and sand, and volia everything fits.

But glitter is more fun!

Where to find sequins and glitter

There’s not a “sequins” section in craft stores, typically they’re tucked into one or more other sections. I’ve found them in the scrapbook stuff, sewing section, jewelry section and also the glitter/kids craft area.

Instructions

1. Shape the cones.

Good luck.

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Try this method for making cones. Or whatever you can google or figure out. I made a large scale compass and used quarter circles to make cones (see above). They’re slightly wobbly, but whatever. Precision is not my strong suit.

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